Digitalis Purpurea


Digitalis Purpurea homeopathy medicine, complete details of homeopathic remedy Digitalis Purpurea from Keynotes and Characteristics by H C Allen…


Digitalis Purpurea has Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness and irregular intermitting pulse, occurring at the climacteric; < by least motion.

Weak heart without valvular complications.

Digitalis Purpurea has Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved (Cocaine – fears that unless constantly on the move, heart will cease beating, Gelsemium ).

Faintness or sinking at the stomach; exhaustion; extreme prostration; feels as if he were dying.

Night emissions, with great weakness of genitals after coitus.

Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk ( Stannum ).

Stools: very light, ash-colored; delayed, chalky ( Chelidonium, Podophyllum ); almost white ( Calcarea, Cinchona ); pipe-stem stool; involuntary.

Pulse full, irregular, very slow and weak; intermitting every third, fifth or seventh beat.

Digitalis Purpurea has Face pale, deathlike appearance and bluish-red.

Blueness of skin, eyelids; lips and tongue.

Digitalis Purpurea has Respiration irregular, difficult, deep sighing.

The fingers “go to sleep” frequently and easily.

Digitalis Purpurea has Dropsy: post-scarlatinal; in Bright’s disease; with suppression of urine; of internal and external parts; with fainting when there are organic affections of the heart (with soreness in uterine region, [Conv.]).

Fatal syncope may occur when being raised to upright position.

Relations. – Cinchona antidotes the direct action of Digitalis and increases the anxiety.

Aggravation. – When sitting, especially when sitting erect; motion.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.